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SubjectRe: cpqarray broken since 2.5.19
On Wed, Jul 24 2002, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
>
> >
> >Jens, the same is in cciss.c.
> >Please remove locking from blk_stop_queue() (as you suggested) or intrduce
> >unlocking in request_functions.
> >
> Bartek I think the removal is just for reassertion that the
> locking is the problem. You can't remove it easly from
> blk_stop_queue() unless you make it mandatory that blk_stop_queue
> has to be run with the lock already held. Or in other words
> basically -> Don't use blk_stop_queue() outside of ->request_fn.

Of couse Bart is advocating just making sure that every caller of
blk_stop_queue() _has_ the queue_lock before calling it, not removing
the locking there.

--
Jens Axboe

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